When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart.

Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me.

I realize it has become too easy to find a diet to fit in with whatever you happen to feel like eating and that diets are not there to be picked and mixed but picked and stuck to, which is exactly what I shall begin to do once I've eaten this chocolate croissant.

I'm no good at anything. Not men. Not social skills. Not work. Nothing.

If the stories don't come from the inside out, then Bridget [Jones] is not being true to herself and it's very important to me that she stays that way.

As women glide from their twenties to thirties, Shazzer argues, the balance of power subtly shifts. Even the most outrageous minxes lose their nerve, wrestling with the first twinges of existential angst: fears of dying alone and being found three weeks later half-eaten by an Alsatian.

Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.